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🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

lamento

Pronunciation / Transliteration: la-men-to

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Lament/ləˈmɛnt/
nounverbCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"O lamento da viúva ecoava pelos corredores vazios."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A passionate expression of grief or sorrow.

    "The lament of the widow echoed through the empty halls."
As verb
  1. 1

    To express sorrow, mourning, or regret.

    "He lamented the loss of his childhood home."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'lamentum', meaning a wailing or weeping. The term entered English via Middle French in the late 14th century, evolving from a physical expression of grief into both a noun signifying a passionate expression of sorrow and a verb meaning to mourn.

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